On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 10:16  PM, Joyce MacDonald wrote:
> Of course, this doesn't mean that at some point in the future
> somebody wouldn't be able to infect Macs on newer OS, or that some 
> kind of
> mysterious multiple-platform virus/worm wouldn't mess up everybody,

That's exactly what I wonder about, too.  Should I turn html off in 
Apple Mail?

>  but for
> now can Alex rest fairly assured that nothing is going to be 
> irretrievably
> messed up in _her_ system?
>
Virex spent 2 hours and 45 minutes scanning my whole 80 gig hard drive 
and found nothing, so I'm quite confident that I'm okay.  (Well, except 
for that nagging little fact that McAfee hasn't updated Virex since 
Aug. 27...)  It was time to do a whole-system check anyway.

Alex Whitman

PS. Ward, Joyce and Marta are correct; I am female.  Marta, thank you 
for your kind words about my email address.  I hope you won't be 
disappointed to learn that the inspiration for it came from 
Thoroughbred horse racing rather than the genius JRR Tolkein.



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